• What Would Google Do?

  • By: Jeff Jarvis
  • Narrated by: Jeff Jarvis
  • Length: 9 hrs and 2 mins
  • 4.0 out of 5 stars (1,103 ratings)

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What Would Google Do?

By: Jeff Jarvis
Narrated by: Jeff Jarvis
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Publisher's summary

A bold and vital book that asks and answers the most urgent question of today: What Would Google Do?

In a book that's one part prophecy, one part thought experiment, one part manifesto, and one part survival manual, Internet impresario and blogging pioneer Jeff Jarvis reverse-engineers Google, the fastest-growing company in history, to discover 40 clear and straightforward rules to manage and live by.

At the same time, he illuminates the new worldview of the internet generation: how it challenges and destroys, but also opens up vast new opportunities. His findings are counterintuitive, imaginative, practical, and above all, visionary, giving readers a glimpse of how everyone and everything, from corporations to governments, nations to individuals, must evolve in the Google era.

Along the way, he looks under the hood of a car designed by its drivers, ponders a worldwide university where the students design their curriculum, envisions an airline fueled by a social network, imagines the open-source restaurant, and examines a series of industries and institutions that will soon benefit from this book's central question.

The result is an astonishing, mind-opening book that, in the end, is not about Google. It's about you.

©2009 Jeff Jarvis (P)2009 HarperCollins Publishers

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Good insight

Really enjoyed this book from Jeff Jarvis. I learned a lot about Google and how the internet has changed the way we do business.

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A lot of obvious and some not so obvious

I would have much rather the guy from the audible eBoys book read this, but after several chapters Jeff's voice isn't so bad.

If you keep up with technology and the web at all, a lot of Jeff's ideas and tech forecasts aren't jaw-dropping. There are a couple of concepts of value in this book.

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Interesting

What made the experience of listening to What Would Google Do? the most enjoyable?

This book made me think in a different way on many issues in life today. Both as a private person and in business

What was the most interesting aspect of this story? The least interesting?

Think different and apply sharing to many more areas

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    5 out of 5 stars

high energy treastise

Terrific journey about what characteristics made Google successful, and how these characteristics apply to a wide range of businesses stuck in the 20th century.

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    5 out of 5 stars

Great Book

A great primer for business leaders and future business leaders that are still contemplating the 21st century business world. Plenty of food for thought and pithy observations and one liners to take into the board room.

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What Google will do next?

Thanks Jeff for a great audio book, it has changed my thinking and I now wonder what Google will do next..

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What Each Business Should Do

Great book about how any business should look. A great set of information about google's business model, their acquisitions and much more.
Build Platform Not Website.

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Author does a great performance, easy to listen to

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Pretty awesome book!

This is a must read!

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Vain

Half the book seems to be the journalist giving you auto-biography or boasting of his immense influence over the Internet.

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